IEPs
This legal document must be reviewed and updated at least once per year to ensure it meets a student's needs.
What is an IEP?
Differentiated instruction often varies these three components: content, process, and this outcome.
What is product?
Providing extra time on a test is an example of this support, which changes how a student learns the material.
What is an accommodation?
A BIP is often created after a student’s behavior has been analyzed using this assessment tool.
What is a Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)?
This service supports students with communication difficulties and often includes articulation, language, and fluency therapy.
What is speech therapy?
The law requiring that every student with a disability receives a free and appropriate public education (FAPE) is known by this acronym.
What is IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)?
This type of grouping is often used in differentiated instruction to meet students’ varied learning needs.
What is flexible grouping?
This support alters the curriculum or expectations for a student, such as reducing the number of assignments.
What is a modification?
This type of reinforcement involves giving a student something positive when they exhibit a desired behavior.
What is positive reinforcement?
This type of therapy helps students develop fine motor skills needed for tasks like writing and using scissors.
What is occupational therapy?
This type of meeting brings together parents, teachers, and school staff to develop or revise a student's IEP.
What is an IEP meeting?
This instructional strategy involves giving students choices in how they demonstrate their learning.
What is student choice?
True or False: Modifications change the content a student learns, while accommodations change how the student learns it.
What is True?
This part of a BIP identifies the specific behaviors the plan is intended to address.
What are target behaviors?
This related service involves supporting students’ physical mobility and motor skills.
What is physical therapy?
This section of the IEP outlines the specific academic and functional skills a student will work on during the school year.
What are annual goals?
Teachers use these tools to pre-assess students' knowledge and skills before starting a lesson to guide differentiation.
What are diagnostic assessments?
Allowing a student to respond orally instead of writing is an example of this type of support.
What is an accommodation?
This strategy in a BIP teaches a student a new, appropriate behavior to replace the challenging one.
What is a replacement behavior?
This related service provides students with the tools and strategies they need to successfully navigate school environments, often supporting social and emotional needs.
What is counseling?
This is the term for the placement decision that ensures students with disabilities are educated with their non-disabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate.
What is the least restrictive environment (LRE)?
This differentiation technique adjusts the level of complexity in a task based on the readiness of individual students.
What is tiered instruction?
Assigning simpler reading material to a student in place of the regular text is an example of this support.
What is a modification?
This data collection method helps track how often a behavior occurs and under what circumstances.
What is behavior tracking or data monitoring?
This service involves specialized transportation to ensure students with disabilities can attend school and school-related activities.
What is special transportation?